5:14 PM,
Mar. 8, 2014

Written by

Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm

The former seems like a tissue in a hurricane; it's here, then whisked away in a blink, as though it never occurred. The latter is something like a car stuck in a snowstorm; you just spin in place, waiting for the right push.

The best and the worst: you've known them equally. And, as the characters find out for themselves in the new book "Safe with Me" by Amy Hatvany (Washington Square Press, $15, 342 pages), you know you'll live through both of them. ...